Identity and authentic heritage… Horses inspire Arab artists and poets
Poetry and fine art have its vocabulary from , where its neighing stimulated the sources of human creativity, and the heritage was shaped by the brush of a visual artist on a creative painting, or a poetic text that touched the human conscience.
His Royal Highness Prince Khaled Al-Faisal created a number of paintings about It bore the titles: Asayef, Mares, Al-Harib, Assaf Al-Khail, Bint Al-Kahila, Daughters of the Wind, and a large number of Saudi visual artists were inspired in their paintings and drawings of horses, taking advantage of their visual rhythm, movements, and colors.
Authentic Heritage
And poets did not stray far from drawing inspiration from the presence of And they were weak before the teeth of dispossession and sparks.
The ones who were hostile to the whole world.
Civil women are for the people of resolve. What they waited for.
The victors are with the free. It triumphs
And the poet Abd al-Rahman al-Ashmawi chanted:
Let me saddle the freed horses
And make it a departure for my goal
I roam with it the cities of my memories
and penetrate the desert with it
and make in the Hijaz a place for it
and in Najd I provide it with a context
I teach it to overcome every dam
that confronts it and I give it the race
Arabs and horses
And Al-Jahiz says: There has never been a nation more in awe of horses, and I do not know more about them than the Arabs, and for this reason it has been added to them in every tongue, and attributed to them in every place, so they said an Arabian horse, and they did not say otherwise."
The horse in the Arabic language, as Ibn Manzur says: "A stallion is called a horse, and is collected on a horse. As for the horse, it is one and singular of horses, and its plural is mares for males and females, so it is not called a mare. The horse rider is a knight".
Books about horses
It was stated in Al-Kalbi’s book Al-Khail: The name “horse” is derived from the word “khall” that imagines a horse, and “to swagger” if he is arrogant and arrogant, because swagger is a characteristic of horses that can hardly be separated from it. It was mentioned in the book “The Principles of the Language” by Al-Khatib Al-Iskafi that horses "Feminine, and its plural form is horses, but there is no word for it".
Among the most famous people who wrote about horses: Abu Ubaida Muammar bin Al-Muthanna, who died in the year 209 AH. "Horse book"And Abdul Malik Al-Asmai, who died in 215 AH or 216 AH "Horse book"And Ibn Al-Arabi, who died in 231 AH, wrote a book "Names of Arab horses and their riders"Al-Aswad Al-Arabi, one of the people of the fifth century AH, wrote a book "Names of Arab horses, their lineages, and mention of their riders"And Muhammad bin Kamil Al-Taji Al-Sahbi, one of the people of the seventh century AH, wrote a book "The ring in the famous names of horses in pre-Islamic times and Islam"Ali bin Hudhayl Al-Andalusi, one of the people of the eighth century, wrote a book "Knights ornament and brave emblem"
Arab Poets
Arab poets have excelled throughout the ages in mentioning horses in their poetry, and perhaps the most famous of them is Imru’ al-Qays, and he has many famous verses in his Mu’allaqa describing the horse:
And he took his lunch, while the birds were in their nests
with a bare chain of steadfastness, a temple of
deception, fleeing, coming, contriving together
like a boulder of rock smashed by the torrent. From Ali
And also Al-Afwah Al-Awdi, an ancient pre-Islamic poet, Al-Tufayl Al-Ghanawi, Al-Nabigha Al-Jaadi, Antarah Al-Absi and others.
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